Dezi Gallegos is a playwright based in Los Angeles, California, who currently works at Proximity Media.

Biography

Dez Gallegos (usually referred to as "Dezi"), was born on September 8, 1995, in Petaluma, California. He began his writing career at the age of eight when he gained county-wide fame for penning a 300-page fan-fiction manuscript for JK Rowling's ''

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'' series. In 2010, Gallegos co-wrote and assistant directed Walking Elephant Theater Company's ''Prop 8 Love Stories''. The show toured throughout the California Bay Area before performing in New York's

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for two weeks. The production was named as Broadway World's "Best Special Theater Event" of 2010. ''Prop 8 Love Stories'' was published in 2012. Throughout his high school career, Gallegos wrote and directed ''Quite Dead'' (2012) and ''God Fights the Plague'' (2014). The latter was a one-man show in San Francisco's historic

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Theater. In 2015 he was awarded the Annette Lust Award for Promising Theatrical Talent presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. While working as faculty for Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma, CA, Gallegos worked with a group of 9-14 year olds to write, direct, and produce ''Hamlet's Orphans'' (2014), a production which was chosen for Best Original Script by the SFBATCC. In 2015, Gallegos gave a talk entitled "The Human Behind the Hashtag" at the Sonoma County

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. Earlier that year he had released a production of his newest drama, ''Yesterday Again''. The show was awarded the 2016 SOTA Award for Best New Play as well as named one of North Bay Stage and Screen's "Top Ten Torn Tickets of 2015". Gallegos has been featured in ''

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'', ''The Daily Californian'', and '' The San Francisco Examiner'', among other periodicals. He was nominated as one of Sonoma County's "30 under 30"(2016). In 2018, he graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts,

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with a BFA in Film and Television Production. Since, he has worked on films such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and the upcoming '' Space Jam: A New Legacy''.

Written works

*''Harry Potter and the Fang of the Serpent'' (2003) unpublished *''Prop 8 Love Stories'' (Booktrope Editions, 2012). *''Quite Dead'' (2012) *''God Fights the Plague'' (2014) *''Hamlet's Orphans'' (2014) *''Yesterday Again'' (2015) *''Lost in Aroncore'' (2017) *''My Ex-Girlfriend is a Shovel'' (2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallegos, Dezi Living people 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 1995 births People from Petaluma, California